[R-pkg-devel] Question about configure file and system requirements

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Lorenzo Busetto <lbusett at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:04:53 +0100 writes:

    > Dear all, a quick question:

    > while preparing for a CRAN submission, am I supposed to
    > include a "configure" file and list for system
    > requirements also if those system requirements "come from"
    > the packages that I import ?

If the requirements are *only* in these packages, and not
(directly) in your package's functions,
you should *not* duplicate the checks (nor the entries in
DESCRIPTION),

by the same logic that you should not list 'Depends', 'Imports',
'Suggests', etc of those packages.

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich

    > Asking this because the "configure" and system
    > requirements are already present in the imported packages,
    > so my configuration check would duplicate what is already
    > done while installing the dependencies.

    > sorry if this is dumb...

    > Lorenzo